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...until the first bombing that he really found out what fear was like. It came in the middle of a bright, moonlit night while Captain Bliven was working in a command tent. When a stick of bombs exploded close enough to shake the tent and rock the lights, the occupants grabbed their helmets and made for the exit. The third series of blasts found Captain Bliven groping through the canvas passageway...
...Moonlit Mackerel. When Franklin Roosevelt appointed Fly to the FCC chairmanship in 1939, FCC was a seven-man tangle of bickering members. Its job was to regulate radio, telegraph and telephone communications, but it was not having much success. Radio, as Fly saw it, was a newly rich business which had little idea of its public responsibility. It was, he decided, a "duopoly" dominated by two national networks (NBC and CBS), and Fly set out to break...
...himself alone, she leads Mr. Hall through some unusually footloose footage. She gets him ensnarled in a brawl in a low-life barbershop which specializes in reconditioning shiners. She goads a Job-like bus driver (Buster Keaton) into leaving his dreary route for a gently berserk tour of the moonlit seashore. She takes Hall to San Diego's Zoo where, with very sensible leisure, the camera forgets all about the plot to watch a couple of engaging bears, hindfeet clasped in paws, rock back & forth on their bottoms...
...honest poet has no choice, however, but to show the illusion-loving man-in-the-street that today the beauty he dreams of has become a Wellsian, moonlit scene of desolation-a "lava plateau . . . fissured with chasms" and dotted with extinct volcanoes. Instead of a credible faith, this frozen land offers nothing but a thousand contradictory ways of life, centered around the false face of "the huge stuffed bird of happiness" and the "black stone on which the bones are cracked." Only "among the ruins and the bones" can man hear "the real Word which is our only raison...
...Londoner was heartened by a two-day lull after a moonlit night of good hunting in which fighter pilots knocked down the Things "like tenpins." He hoped for more such nights for proper sleeping...